Customer Reviews

Herbie Nichols, Vol. 1

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My thanks to Eric T. Johnson for introducing me to the music of Herbie Nichols. I have an extensive Blue Note collection, but somehow Nichols "flew under the radar" and I had not heard his stuff. What a great and unappreciated talent!
Johnson ( a fine guitarist) arranges Nichol's compositions for a band and succeeds on every level. Buy this disc, Nichol's own recordings and also any music from The Herbie Nichols Project and you will not be disappointed.

I agree; this is a great record, worth 5 stars for the musicianship of the performers and the bright, fresh arrangements and solos this fine guitarist and his strong group realized. This record stands -in its own personal way- at the level of other "recent" brilliant reinterpretations of the music composed by Herbie Nichols, a tragic, overlooked figure of composer and pianist died in the '60s. I loved ICP Orchestra, Misha Mengelberg, Duck Baker, Herbie Nichols Project, Roswell Rudd, Buell Neidlinger and Marty Kristall's tributes to this music. Eric says strongly his own word about.
Eric, may we have Vol.2, now?

fine album BUT. . . don't overlooking buying some of Nichols trio recordings on Blue Note. This is an excellent album and shows ONE SIDE of Nichols. You won't get the full picture till you hear the man himself zipping through his own world of interesting rhythms and syncopation with odd harmonic and melodic choices. Herbie Nichols was, in some ways, the most "out" thing on Blue Note as his scales and chords - like those of Bill Evans - clearly nodded toward European impressionism and avant garde